BIOS 70th Anniversary Celebration, October 2019

Program

9:00 – 10:45 AM Breakfast, Student Poster Session and Tour of the Gillings School, Armfield Atrium, Michael Hooker Research Center, UNC Gillings School

11:00 AM Registration opens

11:30 AM – 1:30 PM Welcome Remarks – Michael R. Kosorok, PhD, Chair, Department of Biostatistics;

Lunch program featuring keynote speaker F. DuBois Bowman, PhD (2000 Biostatistics), Dean of the School of Public Health, University of Michigan

1:30 – 2:45 PM Session I: Machine Learning – Ruoqing Zhu, PhD (2013 Biostatistics) Assistant Professor of Statistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Xiaotong “Phoebe” Jiang, Doctoral Candidate of Biostatistics, UNC-Chapel Hill

3:00 – 4:15 PM Session II: Clinical Trials – Steve Snapinn, PhD (1983 Biostatistics) Sr. VP of Biometrics, Adler Biopharmaceuticals Inc.; Matt Psioda, PhD (2016 Biostatistics), Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, UNC-Chapel Hill

4:30 – 5:15 PM Campus Walk – Sign up for a guided campus tour at the registration table

Reception – Alumni Hall III, The Carolina Club

5:15 – 6:00 PM Reception & Alumni Poster Session, Alumni Hall III*

6:00 – 8:00 PM Welcome Remarks – Kevin Guskiewicz, Interim Chancellor, UNC-Chapel Hill;

Dinner program featuring keynote speaker Dennis Gillings, PhD, CBE former Professor of Biostatistics at UNC-Chapel Hill, Co-founder and former Executive Chair of Quintiles (now IQVIA)

Tuesday, October 29

8:00 – 9:00 AM Breakfast at the Carolina Club

9:00 – 10:30 AM Session III: Survival – Doug Schaubel PhD (2002 Biostatistics), Professor of Biostatistics, University of Pennsylvania; Guoqing Diao, PhD (2005 Biostatistics), George Mason University; Busola Ololade Sanusi, Biostatistics Graduate Student, UNC-Chapel Hill

10:30– 11:45 AM Session IV: Causal Inference/Precision Health – Lan Liu, PhD (2013 Biostatistics), Assistant Professor of Statistics, University of Minnesota at Twin Cities; John Sperger, Doctoral Candidate of Biostatistics, UNC-Chapel Hill

11:45 AM – 12:00 PM BREAK

12:00 – 1:30 PM Alumni Panel Luncheon – Moderated by Laura Helms Reece, DrPH (2000 Biostatistics), Chief Executive Officer, Rho

Eugenio Andraca-Carrera, PhD (2008 Biostatistics), Mathematical Statistician Team Lead, U.S. Food and Drug Administration;

Natalie Cheung Rotelli, MPH (2003 Biostatistics), Manager of Design Hub Analytics, Eli Lilly and Company;

Todd A. Durham, PhD, MS (1995 Biostatistics), Vice President, Clinical & Outcomes Research, Foundation Fighting Blindness;

Elaine B. Hoffman, PhD (1998 Biostatistics), Head SQS Vaccines and Operations, Statistical & Quantitative Sciences, Data Sciences Institute, R&D, Takeda;

Jean G. Orelien, DrPH (2007 Biostatistics), Chief Executive Officer, ScitoVation, LLC

1:30 – 2:45 PM Session V: Non-Parametrics – Munni Begum, DrPH (2005 Biostatistics), Professor of Mathematical Sciences, Ball State University; Shrikant Bangdiwala, PhD (1980 Biostatistics), Professor of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, McMaster University

2:45 – 4:00 PM Session VI: Statistical Genetics – Seungguen Lee, PhD (2010 Biostatistics), Associate Professor of Biostatistics, University of Michigan; Eric Van Buren, Doctoral Candidate of Biostatistics, UNC-Chapel Hill

4:00 PM Closing Remarks

• Doug Schaubel (2002 biostatistics), professor of biostatistics, University of Pennsylvania
• Guoqing Diao, (2005 biostatistics), associate professor and director of the PhD program in statistical science, George Mason University
• Busola Sanusi, doctoral candidate of biostatistics, UNC-Chapel Hill